The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
ABRAHAM KUYPERThere is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
More Abraham Kuyper Quotes
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An authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.
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A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good,
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To which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to Go
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And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
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There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower.
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The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom
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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life
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The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel.
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It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God’s holy ordinances shall be established again in the home
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You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
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Notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than ‘rotten to the very core’?
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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.
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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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